Everything about "pox leber" as a minced oath, and an earlier source.
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Everything about "pox leber" as a minced oath, and an earlier source.
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12-01-2026, 11:32 PM
It all comes from the belief that God's body parts are the most sacred thing you could testify by. If you broke your oath, your sin would literally cause damage to the holiest of tissues. Of course they started mincing this into "pox" to make it less Gotts-like. But that's how we get this more profane kind of swearing with all these body parts.
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